The laptops down at your local PC retailer may be fine for the boardroom, living room and bedroom, but when you need to plunk down a laptop in the middle of a war zone or at a construction site, something tougher is needed. Augmentix offers military, industrial, government and commercial buyers a new option with their XTG 630 fully-rugged notebook, announced on Monday.
Unlike similar notebooks in the fully-rugged market, the XTG 630 uses a common consumer notebook as a base to make IT integration easier. The computer shares a BIOS, operating system, drivers, and utilities with the Dell D630 and ATG630, making it basically a beefed-up version of the same computer. It packs a dual-core Intel 2.4Ghz processor, Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor, integrated 802.11 a/g/n Wi-Fi, plus Bluetooth and GPS.
To take it a step above the Dell notebooks it shares software with, the XTG 630 gets a dense magnesium exoskeleton with over-mold protection system, and Augmentix’s QuadCool thermal management system. A 14.1-inch DirectVue LCD supposedly provides excellent viewability, even in direct sunlight. Additional reinforcements range from a shock-mounted hard drive cage to a fully sealed keyboard.
Since the XTG is intended for large-scale purchasers, no pricing information was available at the time of launch.
